This dude got me.

This is so dumb it’s almost brilliant. If you go to a job, you’re working class. If you make rules, you’re the ruling class.

People represent it origins as far older. And by doing so, claim a more authentic mode of being in the world.

Sadly it’s been a week. I’ve read this several times as closely as I could and tried to understand where my apprehension lies. I spent some time with the wiki link to counterfactuals and wanted to really dedicate more time doing so, but wasn’t able to dedicate the time to it.

So, again, to restart the conversation, I wonder if, I have two separate confusions. The first, if consciousness is a property that is weakly emergent in brains, what is a brain?

I think I have a hard time buying that consciousness is a property of a brain and not mind. And I get that you are not trying to prove that it does. I’m far more interested in why, in the face of minimal support, we would align ourselves with weak emergence over strong emergence.

I have a lingering second problem. What is a model? In that wiki link, it has a three layer model: association, intervention, and counterfactuals. I would be hard pressed to consider the first two layers as sufficient for bing considered a model. But I think the three layer model doesn’t, as far as I’ve read, address intention, causal connection, or first order simulation. I think I’m hard pressed to see a collection of cells, neuron or otherwise, doing more than creating a response to a condition.

After last years was cancelled, I wasn’t sure if was happening this year. Apparently, a split in the org means there will be two this year.

How do you split that baby?

American malls were inspired by the town square, if I remember correctly

Do you not get the meme… It’s funny because it’s true.

Instead of measuring out your pasta, have you considered switching to Linux?

Data and media: two tricky Latin plurals and how to handle them

Not in English.

Baby giraffe.

Shut up and calculate!

Mamet went full MAGA

Increase the density of air around them by ten of fifteen percent. If they begin to lie, reduce it to like 85% of normal.

I continue to be this old.

1. Is your bond solid?
2. Does he know the value of work?
3. Does he know how much most people would have to work to get that phone?
4. Does his friendship nourish him?

Next time the parents decide they, assumingly from a good place, give your son an expensive gift, have them run it by you. Talk to them like they actually care for your son and know, for yourself, that your care is different than theirs. We all need a lot of caring adults when we’re young.

What… No one masturbating in the corner. This must be a rush hour train.

Here’s some others:

• Windows is garbage. The last time windows was good was Windows [10, 7, 2000, NT, 3.1, O/S2].
• don’t you care about your privacy?
• All AI is all slop all the time. If you think of using AI you are garbage.
• Star Trek. I have no issues with my Star Trek homies. Y’all are awesome.

F#? What? We can’t curse on the internet? Self censorship at dictator levels here. /s